The search for alternative splicing regulators: New approaches offer a path to a splicing code

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 279-285

  David, Charles J ^a   Manley, James L ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL TYPE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 38949133822     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1643108     Document Type: Review

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